Carbon monoxide detectors

paddyrg

Mr_Thrifty wrote: »

I would really like a free alarm. They cost so dam much. Called the fire brigade and they won't give me one because of health and safety (apparently only experts like them know how to fit them properly). I really don't want to spend the good part of £50 on two poxy little alarms that probably only cost 50p each to make in China.

I know what you mean, I would like everything to be free as well, alas somebody has to pay for it. In this case, it would be the taxpayer, who frankly has more things to worry about than your freebie at the moment.

With them starting at at tenner on Amazon, frankly if you don't value your own families life at a tenner, why should anyone else?

dimbo61

Mains wired smoke alarms required for HMO properties and Fire alarm panel needed in HMO,s with 3 or more stories.
No something to miss if you end up in court after your rental property goes up in flames

tbs624

Mr Thrifty - Seven -day- weekend has given you a link showing you can get a couple of decent audible CO alarms for around £26.

Who cares what they "cost to make in China"? They could save a member of your family from brain damage or death - what price that security?

tbs624

dimbo61 wrote: »

Mains wired smoke alarms required for HMO properties and Fire alarm panel needed in HMO,s with 3 or more stories.
No something to miss if you end up in court after your rental property goes up in flames

HMOs may have "3 or more stories" about them but it's the storeys that count Presumably you are responding to GDB2222's comment on your previous post?

Although the OP is talking about CO alarms ( and apparently in their own recntly bought home, rather than a rental property) note that any property built post June 1992 also has to have mains linked smoke alarms, with one on each floor.

G_M

two for £26

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Search/searchTerms/7002984.htm

seven-day-weekend

I don't think that £26 is very much to spend on something that may potentially save your life.

Of course you would like them free, who wouldn't? I'd prefer to not to have to pay my Council Tax or Electricity bills too!

I have sent you a link, and so has GM, to show where you can get two CO alarms for £26. Don'tt ake risks because of a tiny amount of money!

seven-day-weekend

GDB2222 wrote: »

Why? What's wrong with battery ones? Why shouldn't tenants buy their own batteries, same as 99% of householders with smoke alarms do?

Because apparently tenants don't.

When I was a landlord, my tenants invariably disconnected the smoke alarms because they would go off when they were cooking, or they would 'chirp' when the battery needed changing. However, if they had all been burned in their beds, I would have been liable.

Why they couldn't have just taken more care with the cooking, or bought a new battery, I ahve no idea.

Having said that, my son is having some new electrical wiring at his recently bought flat and the electrician says he has got to have a wired heat alarm in the kitchen and a wired smoke alarm in the hall, it's to comply with regulations.

GDB2222

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Because apparently tenants don't.

When I was a landlord, my tenants invariably disconnected the smoke alarms because they would go off when they were cooking, or they would 'chirp' when the battery needed changing. However, if they had all been burned in their beds, I would have been liable.

Why they couldn't have just taken more care with the cooking, or bought a new battery, I ahve no idea.

Having said that, my son is having some new electrical wiring at his recently bought flat and the electrician says he has got to have a wired heat alarm in the kitchen and a wired smoke alarm in the hall, it's to comply with regulations.

If it's not an HMO you wouldn't have been liable for anything. If it was an HMO, the alarms should have been wired-in. As a responsible landlord, I provide smoke alarms, but I CBA to go round checking the batteries.

tbs624

If you are a T you may want to thoroughly check out that smoke alarm, not just test its batteries - just in case it's one of these link and link

Februarycat

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I have ordered these in the past, apparently the spec is very good for an alarm of this price and the company are very helpful:

http://www.safelincs.co.uk/Carbon-Monoxide-Detector-with-LED-Kidde-900-0259/

I have two fitted in my house (one in the kitchen near the boiler and one upstairs near the bedrooms).

When I had my house in Spain,where I also had one of these alarms installed, the fumes from the boiler blew back in a hurricane, and the CO alarm went off, it is LOUD!!

Thanks just ordered one as my old one is dead and these are a lot cheaper than what I paid last time.